TESTING GROUNDS: Live Art and Music event / 30 January, 2010 / Permanent Gallery, Brighton, UK
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TESTING GROUNDS
Live Art and Music event
Saturday 30 January, 2010
7pm
Permanent Gallery
Brighton, UK
Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters this message: there are formal limits, there are no ‘substantial’ ones.” Roland Barthes, Myth Today.
The works in this event could each be defined for a large part as construction of mythology, a construction of basic tropes in stories- as Barthes suggested, the human mind endlessly creates stories to process and interpret the world. The constructed narratives for Testing Grounds propose a fictionalised reality of the world, through different approaches: autobiographic elements; anatomic and sonic examination of a town from an outside stance; stories that reflect an ambiguous presence somewhere between text and reality; and finally the re-exploration of fairy tales and folk tales to bridge the narrative and abstract features of live performance.
Plymouth-based duo Got Any Rice will create their story of Brighton, focusing on sounds to translate the history of a place. Their stethoscopic exploration into the surroundings of the Permanent Gallery leading them to create and present a taxonomy of their ethnological findings.
Sylvia Rimat’s work intertwines subtly and gently with the ‘real’ and the ‘imagined’, and wittingly plays with the audience imagination by writing the story of what has not happened yet, or that is just about to happen.
Mim King’s movement piece will retrace a very personal narrative as her own body reflects her story. Body made of ideas of stillness and waiting, of departures and transience, of shadows, beginnings, endings and the passage in between, of markings made and the traces we leave behind.
Anne Gaelle Thiriot and Marcel Sparmann’s performance aims at reaching imagination in adulthood and at involving the audience as story-makers through action rather than through words with the use of “cards of Propp”, a Russian formalist who analysed fairy tales and folk-tales through a series of functions.
This event is organised in partnership with Permanent Gallery.
More info:
http://www.testinggrounds.org.uk
http://www.permanentgallery.com
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